This is the Forward’s coverage of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial.
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Expert Criticizes Netanyahu For ‘Following’ Trump On Anti-Semitism
The academic adviser of Israel’s Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his delayed response to the uptick in anti-Semitism in America under President Trump. Netanyahu “follows President Trump,” Yad Vashem anti-Semitism expert Yehuda Bauer told National Public Radio. “He did not react immediately.” Some Israeli analysts say that Netanyahu’s…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Historian Yaffa Eliach’s Collection Dedicated At Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The personal collection of Holocaust documentation of survivor and historian Prof. Yaffa Eliach was dedicated at the Yad Vashem memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Eliach dedicated her life to documenting the events and victims of the Holocaust, particularly the pre-World War II life in her birthplace, the Lithuanian town of Eishishok. Eliach…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem, U.S. Holocaust Memorial School White House on Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum said in a statement that the Holocaust was “was the unprecedented genocide of six million Jews.” The Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem issued a statement Tuesday discussing several of the events it held in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Yad Vashem representatives stressed to all…
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Fast Forward Hard-Right German Holocaust Deniers Tour Yad Vashem
What’s it like to go on a tour of Israel with far-righters who deny the Holocaust, but love Israel because it knows how to deal with the “Muslim problem?” Wait no longer, because an undercover reporter from Neon Magazine did that, traveling with individuals from the fringe on a trip last year to the Jewish…
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Opinion Finding My Own Truth As Poland Rewrites Holocaust History
In August, Poland’s Cabinet approved a bill that would criminalize using the phrase “Polish death camp” or “Polish concentration camp,” with punishments ranging from fines to imprisonment. It’s one of several recent government reforms that critics have called anti-democratic. The bill also raises questions about Poland’s role in the Holocaust. It echoes the country’s communist-era…
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The Schmooze Wolf Blitzer Remembers Holocaust Survivor Parents at Yad Vashem Dinner
“I feel as if I grew up with you” Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s lead political anchor told the 500 guests at The American and International Societies for Yad Vashem 70th Tribute Dinner at The Pierre. “My parents were Holocaust survivors. You were eyewitnesses to horrors and [those] who are still with us are very special people….
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Names Hero U.S. Soldier a ‘Righteous Gentile’ for First Time
An American soldier for the first time has been recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations. The late Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds was honored for rescuing Jewish soldiers at a prisoner of war camp in Germany in January 1945, Yad Vashem said in announcing the honor on Wednesday. Edmonds, of Knoxville, Tennessee, died in 1985….
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Opinion Mom Told Strangers Her Holocaust Secret — But Not Me
Getty Images One day in 2002, my mother sat down in the living room of her Upper West Side, Manhattan apartment and told her life story to a stranger. The stranger was a volunteer, part of Steven Spielberg’s epic campaign to preserve the life stories of Holocaust survivors. For over three hours the stranger asked…
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